B bebop dominant scale
Jazz8 notes · C♯ + D♯ + F♯ + G♯ + A♯
Bbebop dominant
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Fingering guideOne octave · both hands
There's no standard one-octave fingering for B bebop dominant: its white keys don't fall where the thumb could pass under in even groups. Keep the thumb off the black keys and play it in short groups of two or three fingers.
Chords in the key
The bebop scale is Mixolydian with one passing note added, so its chords are Mixolydian's.
How to read a scale
Steps, degrees, fingers.
The step pattern
Every scale is a pattern of whole and half steps. B bebop dominant goes W–W–H–W–W–H–H–H.
The degrees
Number the notes from the root: 1 B, 2 C♯, 3 D♯, 4 E, 5 F♯, 6 G♯, ♭7 A, 7 A♯. The degrees stay the same in every key, so a pattern learned in B works in any other.
The fingering
There's no standard one-octave fingering for B bebop dominant: its white keys don't fall where the thumb could pass under in even groups. Keep the thumb off the black keys and play it in short groups of two or three fingers.
All 216 scales
Every scale and mode on every root, each with its own page.
C
D♭
D
E♭
E
F
G♭
G
A♭
A
B♭
Practise it on a real keyboard.
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